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  1. Mission Impossible III on Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? · · Score: 1

    When they used an "electron microscope" to look at a "petri dish" and watch a virus grow "in real time" I was doubled over in the theater in pain trying not to cry out too loud at the absurd stupidity of that scene! I cried!!!

  2. Re:i'm interested in an android app for ssh tunnel on Smartphones For Text SSH Use Re-Revisited · · Score: 2

    ConnectBot can open a port that your application can tunnel through. What I really want is a way to tunnel the browser and maybe even email on my android for when I am using a public insecure wifi point, but I haven't run across anything even remotely close....

    http://www.toremote.com/ssh -Destructions for connect bot port forwarding

  3. Missing something on Can Apps Really Damage a Cellular Network? · · Score: 1

    Fascinating attempt at a story... If it contained anything substantial like a fact, I might actually believe it!

    Of course, citing a single source from T-Mobile, which is obviously very unbiased, really lends a lot of credibility to the "story"!

  4. Pharmaready DMS on Business-Suitable Document Authentication System? · · Score: 1

    PharmaReady has a DMS system that should be able to do what you ask provided you have the webserver available outside your intranet. Instead of passing documents via email, authorized users would upload them themselves and then pass a link. The system is designed with FDA regulations in mind and keeps an audit trail of all activities and has well defined users and user permissions.

  5. Not just programmers on Rockstar Employees Badly Overworked, Say Wives · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is the same situation as in the American Biotech industry. Most companies are small with high burn rates and the whole industry is built around squeezing every bit of time and energy out of employees and then discarding them. Its easy to just say, "Get another job" but its not always that easy. Some of us have friends and family that we actually like to see and living the gypsy lifestyle moving from one job location to another doesn't make that easy on friends, family or children. Furthermore, some of us got where we are by being specialized, and once discarded its not easy or quick to find the next...

  6. This is antibody therapy, NOT a vaccine! on Steps Toward a Universal Flu Vaccine · · Score: 1

    This is a nice science article, but mainstream media has made this "breakthrough" into something it is not, not by a long shot.

    First, it has nothing to do with vaccines. Vaccines are when you are injected with a protein that causes YOU to generate antibodies to that protein. This article is about injecting you with antibodies, which will be cleared from your body in about three days, and the authors guess that it will cost about $1000 a dose (yes, that means upwards of $2000 a week, and two or more shots at the doctor's office per week!)

    Second, while the stalk of the HA protein is a great substrate for antibodies, it is not normally exposed and most antibodies won't be able to see it. Sure, they loaded up some mice with unreasonably high amounts of antibodies and saw some protection to select strains of influenza, but there is a long way to see if this will work against many (never all) strains of influenza, or even if it will work at all in humans! Again, good basic research, but its not a breakthrough, its a good start, a good idea, which is exactly what public science is all about. Sadly, they know very little about commercial drug production and are cashing in on FUD!

    If you want to more about flu research go to a site like http://www.pandemicflu.gov/ . There are several new drugs, which hold much more promise and are much closer to being on the market then this!

    Disclaimer: I help do research on one of those other drugs...

  7. Sky net? on National Car Tracking System Proposed For US · · Score: 1

    I swear I just saw Sarah Conner and her son use a terminator to corrupt this system and thwart the creation of SkyNet last week!

  8. Re:File synchronization... If you must... on Backing Up Laptops In a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    For our business I wrote a couple of scripts that do the following:
    Backup: downloads the latest version of itself and "rsync" from the server
    rsync: makes everything in c:/Documents and Settings world readable, then makes its own .ssh protected. Then rsyncs all files to the central server

    Since our company uses a lot of outlook we reboot the computers into safe mode before we start the backups. Takes one intern an hour or two to back up almost 50 PCs. He does them like dominos starting one after the other then going back and shutting them down.

    Anybody know a nice way to make windows boot into safe mode and run this script then shutdown? Would safe my intern some evenings ;^)

  9. Was it the shutdown or installation of a filter? on De-spamming Your Inbox The Hard Way · · Score: 1

    The article says that the server was shutdown to install new software. He doesn't say he did it, or that he knows what software was installed...

    What do you want to bet that they also installed some sort of spam blocking software during the upgrade?

  10. A slightly different tactic might be better on Lycos Anti-Spam Screensaver Brings Down Spam Sites · · Score: 1

    Too bad that couldn't design their system to process the spam that a user actually receives and then use that information to decide which sites to "send traffic to". Much like with the "Do not call" list, if we assume SPAM establishes a "buisness relationship" with that site, they could not even claim the traffic is a denial of service attack, its simply buisness as usual!

    The only caveat is that people could then send SPAM with URLs that *wanted* attacked, but if a central server was setup listing sites that were true spam sources this problem could be avoided...

    Should I patent this? :)

  11. The future keyboard should be dynamic on Keyboard Layouts for the 21st Century? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think the next big wave in keyboard will be a blending of the keyboard and monitor. Imagine a computer whos input was another touch screen that replaced your mouse and keyboard. Applications wouldn't need to depend upon a standard keyboard setup, they would simply create a unique set of clickable icons (cut, paste, BFG...) that would be exactly what you needed for the program you are using.

  12. So where's the fixes? on Microsoft: Trust and Antitrust · · Score: 1

    Glad to see that Microsoft is trying taking some responsibility for their bugs finally. But if they've spent two months fixing bug, why haven't we seen all these bugfixes getting released? I wonder exactly what they have spent all that time in those meetings doing exactly?